For years I’ve been carting around an old cookie tin filled with rubber stamps I’ve been collecting for more than 30 years, and I finally took it off the shelf today to see what was inside, newly-equipped with an ink pad from Denis Office Supplies.
I wonder if it’s still possible to send 1st, 2nd and 3rd class mail. I wonder why I have a rubber stamp of AMBER.
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These are wonderful! Wonder
These are wonderful! Wonder if AMBER is for a maple syrup grade?
Both White No. 2 and Amber
Both White No. 2 and Amber are also wheat-describing adjectives (“Canada Western Amber Durum” and “CPS White, No.2, Canada Prairie Spring White”).
Amber in uppercase has the
Amber in uppercase has the tone of an operation, a covert note brazenly stamped on an envelope.
There is nothing new under
There is nothing new under the sun.
If you're looking for more
If you're looking for more inspiration for stamps w.r.t. operational code names, here's a sampling from a Düsseldorf Kunsthalle exhibit: https://www.flickr.com/search/?sort=date-taken-desc&safe_search=1&tags=kunsthalle&user_id=96947578%40N00&view_all=1 It was a giant wall filled with word combinations suitably meaningless for operation code names.
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